The Mail tries to make it sound as benign as they can, even beneficial, and it could be, I suppose, if restricted to treating disease. But watch the latest episode of Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman called “Is Sex Obsolete” (if you can stomach it) and it’s clear this is at least in part a continued attack on the family and a truly nightmarish scenario... We could end up with “humans” that have many more than three parents, not all of them human... or two men could have a baby, one of the contributing sperm cells, the other one contributing eggs (believe it or not).

Eugenics Wars

"Superior ability breeds superior ambition." - Spock, 2267

The Eugenics Wars (or the Great Wars) were a series of conflicts fought on Earth between 1992 and 1996. The result of a scientific attempt to improve the Human race through selective breeding and genetic engineering, the wars devastated parts of Earth, by some estimates officially causing some 30 million deaths, and nearly plunging the planet into a new Dark Age. (TOS: "Space Seed"; ENT: "Borderland") (link)

See Robert A. Heinlein’s 1982 science fiction novel, “Friday.” The main character is genetically engineered from multiple (20+) “parents.” As described in Wikipedia,

“Friday...is the story of a female “artificial person,” ...genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans. Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday’s struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans. The story is set in a Balkanized world, in which the nations of the North American continent have been split up into a number of smaller states.”

In light of that last sentence, Heinlein’s story may prove prophetic in more ways than one...

24 posted on 06/28/2013 7:36:07 PM PDT by free-in-nyc
(Freeping from the heart of the occupation)